Category Archive for: Pattern and Tools Primer

I don’t want to get into too much detail about Bootstrap because it isn’t the topic of this book, and I will be using it only to make the examples easier to understand. To demonstrate the basic Bootstrap features, I have applied some of the most useful styles to the Views/Home/Index. cshtml file, as shown in Listing…

As I explained earlier in the chapter, I prefer to create a basic Visual Studio project and then explicitly add the features I need. This is less work than you might expect because Visual Studio supports NuGet, which is a package manager that provides access to a wide catalog of packages for .NET application development. The integration…

In this section, I am going to walk through the process of creating a simple MVC framework application. Not only will this act as a quick primer for how Visual Studio supports MVC development, but it will also allow me to demonstrate the way that I like to create projects. Visual Studio is set up to add…

The term Model-View-Controller has been in use since tile late 1970s and arose from the Small talk project at Xerox PARC where it was conceived as a way to organize early GUI applications. Some of tile details of the original MVC pattern was tied to Small talk-specific concepts, such as screens and tools, but the broader concepts…

In this chapter, I provide a brief overview of the pattern that the MVC framework follows and demonstrate the process for creating a simple MVC project using Visual Studio 2013. The purpose of this chapter is to refresh your memory about tile nature, objectives, and benefits of the MVC pattern and to show you tile process I…